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... classes , especially of labourers in agriculture ; and whether the repeal of that law will not alleviate the pecuniary burden of rate- payers , and tend also to diminish the sufferings , and to elevate . the character , of the whole ...
... classes , especially of labourers in agriculture ; and whether the repeal of that law will not alleviate the pecuniary burden of rate- payers , and tend also to diminish the sufferings , and to elevate . the character , of the whole ...
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... classes who are also receivers of the poor rate , are often wasted and often mischievous . " In some cases they have a quality of evil peculiar to themselves . The majority of them are distributed among the poor inhabitants of ...
... classes who are also receivers of the poor rate , are often wasted and often mischievous . " In some cases they have a quality of evil peculiar to themselves . The majority of them are distributed among the poor inhabitants of ...
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... classes , in England , since the repeal of the corn laws , has been accompanied by a considerable diminution , since 1848 , in the total money cost of pauperism : the sum expended in relief , for the year ended in March , 1851 , has ...
... classes , in England , since the repeal of the corn laws , has been accompanied by a considerable diminution , since 1848 , in the total money cost of pauperism : the sum expended in relief , for the year ended in March , 1851 , has ...
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... classes of poor persons who consti- tute this great army of pauperism . The whole number of adult paupers receiving ... class of paupers who have given rise to the worst , if not to the greater part , of our past pauper legislation , and ...
... classes of poor persons who consti- tute this great army of pauperism . The whole number of adult paupers receiving ... class of paupers who have given rise to the worst , if not to the greater part , of our past pauper legislation , and ...
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... classes of returns , seem to be equally unfounded . " The mode formerly adopted for ascertaining the number of persons in receipt of relief , although affording a means of comparing the pauperism of one year with that of another , has ...
... classes of returns , seem to be equally unfounded . " The mode formerly adopted for ascertaining the number of persons in receipt of relief , although affording a means of comparing the pauperism of one year with that of another , has ...
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25th March administration agricultural counties agricultural labourer alms amount Annual appears average number bishop century chargeable charity Charles II Church classes clergy cloth condition cottages destitution Dorset Edition England and Wales Engravings evils existing expended half-year Henry VIII History houses impotent poor In-door increase inhabitants JANE MARCET justices justices of peace labour Lady-day land landowners law of settlement legislation London Lord lunatic ment metropolis morocco nearly number of paupers number of persons order of removal out-door relief overseers parish parliament parochial paupers relieved persons relieved Poor Law Board Poor Law Commissioners poor persons poor-rate population Post 8vo present proportion provision quarter ratepayers receiving relief reign rental repeal Report residence respect serf settlement and removal Stafford West statute of Charles statute of Elizabeth THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY towns union vagrant villein whole number Woodcuts workhouses Worksop